Tardi's WWI: It Was The War Of The Trenches/Goddamn This War Gift Box Set

by Tardi, Jean-Pierre Verney

Overview

To commemorate WWI’s 100th anniversary, Fantagraphics is collecting two of award-winner Tardi’s WWI graphic novels in a box set.

Jacques Tardi is responsible for two acknowledged graphic novel masterpieces about World War I: It Was the War of the Trenches and Goddamn This War! To honor the 100th anniversary in 2014 of WWI, Fantagraphics is proud to release a two-volume boxed set collecting these two perennial classics. The first book, It Was the War of the Trenches, focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, bringing that existence alive as no one has before or since with some of his most stunning artwork. His second WWI masterwork, Goddamn This War!, is told with a sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude, in masterful full color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606997697
Publisher:	Fantagraphics Books
Publication date:	10/18/2014
Pages:	260
Sales rank:	532,132
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.20(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Tardi is a pioneering, internationally award-winning European cartoonist. His Adèle Blanc-Sec series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and the animated film April and the Extraordinary World was inspired by his cartooning. He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats.

Editorial Reviews

"…Tardi’s WWI… brings together the great French cartoonist’s two incroyable masterpieces of the first war..."

The Guardian - Rachel Cooke

"...It Was the War of the Trenches... is one of the most passionately bleak works in the history of comics. Tardi is unremitting in his focus on the small, human details of the catastrophe ... Goddamn This War!... bring[s] a surprising beauty to the horrors it depicts."

The New York Review of Books - Gabriel Winslow-Yost